What's most likely to happen is that the Einstein WU's will go into "High priority" (AKA EDF [Earliest Deadline First] or "panic mode") and will finish on-time - at the expense of SETI, of course!. Hello, from Albany, California!

I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project.

1.) Servers go down for a couple of days.
2.) My machine sits idle for a while.
3.) Servers come back up and are so jammed that I can't get any work units.
4.) Things mostly stabilize.
5.) Go to 1 and repeat.

I have crunched a whole ton of data for this project and would like to continue to do so. Unfortunately, I can never keep my machine continuously loaded. Right now, I am adding more capacity with the addition of 2 more GPUs, but I know they will sit idle much of the time.

What do we need here in order to keep things running smoothly? How much money would "fully fund" this project?

I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project.

1.) Servers go down for a couple of days.
2.) My machine sits idle for a while.
3.) Servers come back up and are so jammed that I can't get any work units.
4.) Things mostly stabilize.
5.) Go to 1 and repeat.

I have crunched a whole ton of data for this project and would like to continue to do so. Unfortunately, I can never keep my machine continuously loaded. Right now, I am adding more capacity with the addition of 2 more GPUs, but I know they will sit idle much of the time.

What do we need here in order to keep things running smoothly? How much money would "fully fund" this project?

I think a fully funded budget is around $500,000+ actual budget for the last few years was around $350,000 so only around $150,000 more per year.

I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project.

1.) Servers go down for a couple of days.
2.) My machine sits idle for a while.
3.) Servers come back up and are so jammed that I can't get any work units.
4.) Things mostly stabilize.
5.) Go to 1 and repeat.

I have crunched a whole ton of data for this project and would like to continue to do so. Unfortunately, I can never keep my machine continuously loaded. Right now, I am adding more capacity with the addition of 2 more GPUs, but I know they will sit idle much of the time.

What do we need here in order to keep things running smoothly? How much money would "fully fund" this project?

I think a fully funded budget is around $500,000+ actual budget for the last few years was around $350,000 so only around $150,000 more per year.

I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project.

1.) Servers go down for a couple of days.
2.) My machine sits idle for a while.
3.) Servers come back up and are so jammed that I can't get any work units.
4.) Things mostly stabilize.
5.) Go to 1 and repeat.

I have crunched a whole ton of data for this project and would like to continue to do so. Unfortunately, I can never keep my machine continuously loaded. Right now, I am adding more capacity with the addition of 2 more GPUs, but I know they will sit idle much of the time.

What do we need here in order to keep things running smoothly? How much money would "fully fund" this project?

I'm still crunching units from before the last outage. What are you doing wrong?

Yeah, I already did that, I also have a ton of WUs on "Download Pending". I just rejoined this project after helping out FAH for a few months, so I probably don't have a high enough average completed for the scheduler to assign me more units. Also, have 1 machine with 6 cores and 4 GPUs (Soon to be 6), so it chews through WUs pretty quick. However, I had all of the aforementioned problems when I was very active before and it appears that nothing has really changed. I restarted the other day and now have 13,000 pending, so hopefully some of that will clear and the scheduler will give me a larger number of work units.

I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project.

1.) Servers go down for a couple of days.
2.) My machine sits idle for a while.
3.) Servers come back up and are so jammed that I can't get any work units.
4.) Things mostly stabilize.
5.) Go to 1 and repeat.

I have crunched a whole ton of data for this project and would like to continue to do so. Unfortunately, I can never keep my machine continuously loaded. Right now, I am adding more capacity with the addition of 2 more GPUs, but I know they will sit idle much of the time.

What do we need here in order to keep things running smoothly? How much money would "fully fund" this project?

I think a fully funded budget is around $500,000+ actual budget for the last few years was around $350,000 so only around $150,000 more per year.

I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project.

1.) Servers go down for a couple of days.
2.) My machine sits idle for a while.
3.) Servers come back up and are so jammed that I can't get any work units.
4.) Things mostly stabilize.
5.) Go to 1 and repeat.

I have crunched a whole ton of data for this project and would like to continue to do so. Unfortunately, I can never keep my machine continuously loaded. Right now, I am adding more capacity with the addition of 2 more GPUs, but I know they will sit idle much of the time.

What do we need here in order to keep things running smoothly? How much money would "fully fund" this project?

I think a fully funded budget is around $500,000+ actual budget for the last few years was around $350,000 so only around $150,000 more per year.

I am aware of Eric's post, and the fact that the published budget is "what they would like". Based on Eric's statement that "$279k ... (is) more than our entire expenditures last year", I surmise that the current shortfall may be a bit larger than $100k-$150k.

The previous published budget (Fall 2007) showed annual expenditure of $424,500, against a "predicted" total of $476,000. But that was a few years ago, and grants and donations have clearly declined since then.

All of this gives the best available answer to the question "How much money would "fully fund" this project?"

Well, it does appear that the project is running considerably better than a few months ago. Apparently you folks really fixed some things during that last outage. My backlog of work is filling up nicely. I imagine in a couple of days, it will be large enough that i can go a day our two without new WUs.

Pending work sitting at about 40k, and I expect that to go up to about 80 or so. Maybe over 100k after the addition of the next two GPU cores.

Perhaps we can get some organized fundraising going on to help deal with project funding shortfalls?